Household Sentence Examples

Then the strains of the count's household band were replaced by the clatter of knives and forks, the voices of visitors, and the soft steps of the footmen.

He gets a little caught up in the role of head of the household, and becomes a parental figure as well.

Oswulf was slain by his household at a place called Mechil Wongtun in 759.

The feudal assembly of the tenants-in-chief; but it assumed a more definite character during the reign of Henry I., when its members, fewer in number, were the officials of the royal household and other friends and attendants of the king.

Ferapontov's whole household came out too, following Alpatych and the coachman.

Someone has to be head of the household - final authority.

Surely Katie realized Alex remained head of the household because he liked the position – and because he was married to a person who liked him in that position.

From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezukhov's household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was.

Next to the grandmother, the most important person in the household at Nohant was Deschatres.

In general they are characterized by a firm adherence to the fundamental articles of Catholic orthodoxy, tempered by a tolerant attitude towards those not of "the household of the faith."

WILLIAM COXE (1747-1828), English historian, son of Dr William Coxe, physician to the royal household, was born in London on the 7th of March 1747.

The household account he had set up for her was healthy and growing with the monthly deposits he made.

She whirled to see a woman in a servant.s uniform Hannah insisted her household employees wear.

After the death of her father in 1767 she obtained permission to learn millinery and dressmaking with a view to earning her bread, but continued to assist her mother in the management of the household until the autumn of 1772, when she joined her brother William, who had established himself as a teacher of music at Bath.

Men come tamely home at night only from the next field or street, where their household echoes haunt, and their life pines because it breathes its own breath over again; their shadows, morning and evening, reach farther than their daily steps.

Carts piled high with household utensils, chairs, and cupboards kept emerging from the gates of the yards and moving along the streets.

The whole household, as if to atone for not having done it sooner, set eagerly to work at the new task of placing the wounded in the carts.

His son also died and became the national household deity of the Ahoms. The origin of mankind is connected with a flood legend.

It contained a shrine of the Cretan snake goddess, and was rich in minor relics, chiefly in the shape of bronze implements and pottery for household use.

Internal evidence is strongly in favour of its having been a joint work, in which more than one of the men of letters who composed Marguerite's household took part.

I only know that I sat in my mother's lap or clung to her dress as she went about her household duties.

It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories.

As regularity is a prime condition facilitating activity, regularity in his household was carried to the highest point of exactitude.

The countess, tired out and already dressed in shawl and bonnet for her journey, was pacing up and down the drawing room, waiting for the household to assemble for the usual silent prayer with closed doors before starting.

"Where Cade wasn't a household word," she concluded.

From what Romas said, every household on his planet had at least one or two of the critters to keep things clean.

The balance of the afternoon was spent on household chores and packing away the last remnants of the holiday.

Each obelisk listed the members of an immortal household and their offspring.

She would be missed, both for her help and her personality, but it was time for the household to get back to some semblance of normal.

In the stairs; while the objects found in them - household pottery, &c. - and near them (in some cases silos containing carbonized grain and dolia) point to the same conclusion.

So stringent are the obligations of hospitality that a household is bound to exact reparation for any injury done to a guest as though he were a member of the family.

In 1529 he brought out his Oeconomia christiana (a treatise in German, on the right ordering of a Christian household) with a dedication to the duchess Sybil of Saxony and a preface by Luther.

But some of the most valuable products of the island, as camphor and rattan, are to be found in the upland forests, and the Chinese, whenever they ventured too far in search of these products, fell into ambushes of hill-men who neither gave nor sought quarter, and who regarded a Chinese skull as a specially attractive article of household furniture.

About 1142 a family friend brought Thomas under the notice of Archbishop Theobald, of whose household he at once became an inmate.

In curd soaps, however, which form the basis of most household soap, the uncombined alkali and the glycerin are separated by " salting out, " and the soap in this condition contains about 30% of water.

4 may refer to the old man's inability to make or hear music: in the house there is no sound of birds 1 or of singers, there are none of the artistic delights of a well-to-do household; further (v.

The sale of slaves (male and female) for immoral and gladiatorial purposes was forbidden; the custom of putting all the household to death when their master was murdered was modified.

The lessee is bound, on his side (i.) to use the thing hired like a good head of a household (bon pere de famille), in accordance with the express or presumed purpose of the hiring; (ii.) to pay the price of the hiring at the times agreed (Art.

Ordained to the priesthood, probably towards the close of 1521, he entered the household of Sir John Walsh, Old Sodbury, Gloucestershire, as chaplain and domestic tutor.

A decoction of the buds in milk or whey is a common household remedy for scurvy; and the young shoots or green cones form an essential ingredient in the spruce-beer drank with a similar object, or as an occasional beverage.

These ministri were nominees of the king; they included the important members of his household, and their number gradually increased until it outstripped that of all the other members.

With all these enemies, Turgot's fall was certain, but he wished to stay in office long enough to finish his project for the reform of the royal household before resigning.